Canada, make a choice – are you for or against child abuse?
NO excuse!
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49 countries – except Canada – support international child abuse battle
Some issues are above politics. Child abuse is one of them – except in Canada. An article in the Toronto Star on March 15, 2013 reported, “Canada drags its feet on joining global online child abuse battle … American and European diplomats are scratching their heads over why Canada remains the only Western country that has stopped short of joining a new high-powered Global Alliance against online child abuse set up in Brussels last December.” That’s three months ago. While Harper fiddles, thousands of children are burned, bound, bruised and sexually assaulted:
- Worldwide, approximately 40 million children are subjected to child abuse each year
- Everyday 10,000+ innocent children are abused, molested or tortured. Today, five of those children will die
- In Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, over 6.5 million children annually are exposed to unwanted sexual materials over the Internet
- Among Canada’s children and youth 28.6% are vulnerable to physical and/or emotional injury
- A major reason Canadian young people leave home is in order to escape from sexual and/or physical abuse in their family (average age of leaving: 15)
- 4% of the child population were abused children in 2009
- 30% of abused children will abuse their children
NO excuse Canada!
“The nature of Canada’s participation … is under consideration,” Public Safety spokesperson Jessica Slack told the Star, while acknowledging that “international cooperation is critical … to combat this terrible crime.” Under consideration? That’s a cop out Canada! Member countries do not have to commit any money or resources to the organization; they simply agree to set certain public targets in fighting child abuse and make reports on that progress.” And yet, Canada is absent. That is shameful. Disgusting. Inexcusable. It’s politics before children. Call, write, email your MP – today! Just send the link below and ask he/she why our country is not joining the Global Alliance with 49 other countries (see Harper’s email address below).
How low can the Harper Government go?
Steven Harper has an agenda, a weak cabinet and a caucus of sycophants, including Justice Minister Ron Nicholson. The rule is: fit in or you’re out. But, if for every rule there is an exception then child abuse is it. These are family men and women, parents … can politics be that morally corrupt? Obviously, “yes.” If our elected representatives are that despicable, that indecisive about protecting children, then we have only one choice: Start abusing the politicians.
Abuse your politician – today!
It’s one thing to play politics with immigration, economics, healthcare, etc. but when it comes to our children there is no debate. Protect them. From physical and mental abuse, from sexual abuse, from assault with deadly weapons … from having to grow up in a country that is so politically skewed that it cares not, and does not, for its people. It is one thing for politicians to screw most of the people, most of the time, but to ignore the abuse of children for even a moment – let alone three months – is … well, criminal.
Do something – not Harper – YOU!
- Where’s the outrage? We know Harper and the politicians are dragging their asses on this issue so it’s time to start abusing them, so to speak. Take some action. Show your outrage. Send a quick note and a link to this blog. Or a link to the 8 minute Youtube video (see below):
- Harper’s email: pm@pm.gc.ca
- Ron Nicholson: mcu@justice.gc.ca
Here’s the link to this straightspeak blog – cut & paste and send it to them: https://straightspeak.com/2013/03/canada-make-a-choice-are-you-for-or-against-child-abuse/
Don’t drag your ass like the Canadian government. Demand some answers!
Take eight minutes – for the kids that don’t have a fighting chance – and watch this Dreamcatcher video. And then send it to Harper and Nicholson. It says it well.
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Coming 2027
My personal history is the stuff they write books about. And that's what I am doing. The working title, "Chains of My Father: Marry White."
"The ghostly image of the tragic mulatto trapped between two worlds." - Barack Obama
This perspicacious line from the Prologue of Barack Obama's "Dream from My Father" wrenched my aspiration into action. I started writing, furiously. Unlike Obama's perspective, my pain had been for the opposite reason: I was not seen by whites as a "tragic mulatto," rather I lived every day of my childhood hoping whites were not "searching my eyes for some telltale sign" that I WAS mulatto. This is my story.
It's historical fiction because I cannot find enough records to substantiate all facets of the story. I've combed the genealogy, traveled to my father and grandparents' birthplace, walked the graveyards, searched the churches and ... well, all the facts aren't there. I've written three books based on the genealogy of other families but my ancestors emerged from a journey of too much slavery and too few records.
In Grenada, West Indies, my paternal, 3x great grandmother was a "freed slave" and my grandmother, Amelia, was born to a mixed race slave named Mary (we do not know her last name) and a white, French plantation owner, Fredric de Poullain. Amelia was raised in the "Big House" and in adulthood attempted to escape her black heritage by disowning her mother, telling her, "Get out and never come back." Amelia, the mother of twelve children, enshrined the family in her ancestors' commandment, "Marry white." Many did, including my father marrying mother a lovely, white, Anglo-Saxon protestant born in England. They met in Canada where my dad studied and became a doctor.
It has taken seven generations to be free of the stigma of black heritage but today my children embrace it. Unfortunately, the past 250 years have been a wasteland of bigotry and racism, but, on closer look, we see not only the brutality, fear and violence but the self-respect, dignity, love, perseverance and indomitable spirit.
The depth of historic perspective and the human inspiration has created a trilogy and as of this writing I have only arrived at the beginning of the 20th century. 1900 is the year my father was born and the beginning of Book III, and he's pushing me to make sure our story is published by the summer of 2027.
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